Project Management

We’re a big organization with high ideals and ambitious goals. That often means working together in teams and on projects. There’s an art and a science to managing projects efficiently and effectively.

IMPACT Tracker 201

Learn what you can do now to design your journalism for greater impact, whether you’re leading a newsroom, reporting, taking pictures or planning a launch strategy. Featuring a team led by Anjanette Delgado of Detroit Free Press.

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    • New England Table Stakes final reports

    Results from a five-month sprint in Portsmouth, N.H., Providence, R.I., Cape Cod, Mass., Quincy, Mass., and the New England DOT.

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    • Management fundamentals: Prioritizing and delegating

    Illinois state editor Romando Dixson shares how he sets priorities, delegates tasks and projects and delivers results.

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    • Understanding the financial side of our business

    Learn how to make the budget work for you, rather than the other way around.

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    • Project-manage like a pro

    Here’s how to deliver on a big project with many moving people and parts. Ten tips in 60 minutes that will help you simplify and win.

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    • Your power as an informal leader

    You don’t need to have rank and seniority to exert leadership. What you prioritize, what you value, how you listen, how you communicate, whose voices and views you feature, who you lift up, small gestures of mentorship, open-mindedness to advice and counsel — these all are informal acts of leadership.

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    • Strategic thinking and planning

    We look at how one of our biggest news organizations in one of our biggest markets does BIG things. From guiding probing investigative projects to introducing a new pay model to staging a marathon, The Free Press team will share how it sizes up and capitalizes on big opportunities. Hosted by executive editor Peter Bhatia and senior news director/digital Anjanette Delgado.

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    • Five keys to better virtual leadership

    We explore how journalists around the company are learning to listen more, communicate better, celebrate good work, constructively identify areas for improvement and reconnect in ways that return some of the joy and fulfillment we’ve been missing.

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    • Small newsrooms, big ambitions

    Just because your newsroom is small doesn’t mean your goals need to be.

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    • How the USA TODAY Network “works”

    A primer on how to get local stories in USA TODAY (and vice versa), how to take advantage of shared resources like Center for News Design, Digital Optimization Team, recruiting, training, etc. — and whom to call on for help.

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    • Protected: Table Stakes scorecard practicum

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    • Protected: Table Stakes final and graduation

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    • RAOOI clinic: Moving from activities to impact

    This discussion covers RAOOI (Resources, Activities, Outputs, Outcomes, Impact) and how to use it.

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    • Protected: Early-stage advice from a couple of Table Stakes veterans

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    • Office hours: Fault Lines, coronavirus and your challenges

    With guests from the Maynard Institute, we open the lines for questions and comments regarding our challenges at this time.

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    • Protected: Using design-do loops to power your Table Stakes challenge

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    • Mastering ‘The Funnel’: finding and maintaining audience

    Tim Griggs, independent consultant and advisor, discusses how to find and maintain customers in this webinar.

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    • Protected: Table Stakes follow-up: community-funded journalism

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    • Protected: Table Stakes scorecards activity

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    • Strategies for being a great mentor

    Mentoring and coaching is an art, as Socrates knew. Here’s how to channel some of what worked for him.

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    • Protected: Table Stakes updates

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    • Protected: Table Stakes: Moving from activities to outcomes

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    • Project management through performance-driven change: Project scope and definition

    A look at project management through performance-driven change.

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